jan Ne o, toki! Many thanks for your comparison to Mandarin Chinese. But Toki Pona is different here. Sonja has defined the use of nouns adjectives as predicate. See page 20 of her book "Toki Pona - The Language of Good": NOUN + li + ADJECTIVE ijo li pona. Something is good. "pona&quo...

toki! Russian is also a no-copula language like Toki Pona. However, one can recognize the word type by the endings of the words. For example I'm working. - Я работаю. I'm worker. - Я рабочий. The word root (рабо) is the same. But the ends of the words are different. The word end -таю identifies a ve...

jan "KNTRO" o, toki! Sonja published a draft of Toki Pona in 2001. Bryant Knight (a.k.a. "Pije") published a course in 2003. Around 2004 I translated this course into German and published it, together with the English version, in printed form. In the following years I completed m...

toki! As we have seen, transitive verbs and predicate nouns can be distinguished by adding words. However, predicate adjectives cannot be clearly identified. But can an intransitive verb be uniquely identified as such? Let's look at the following example: ona li kon. - kon as transitive verb: It is ...

Are you able to fluently "speak" whatever programming language you used to write it? I mean, without looking up the vocabulary (coding statements like if/then/else) and the grammar (i.e. syntax)? Side-note only about Twitter: I never have used it, and also I am not on Facebook and similar...

The new version also contains words like monsuta = monster (among other meanings). In case not all of these words and/or meanings are included in the "Official Toki Pona Word List", is there any particular way to distinguish between those which are included and those which aren't? By that...

toki! ken la toki pona li ' pona, tawa sina. Since unambiguity is not Toki Pona's primary goal, the reader/listener is more likely to accept unclear statements than in other languages. Toki Pona is the opposite of "Beamtendeutsch". Toki Pona can be a kind of pun and stimulates the imaginat...